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Reddit bans two prominent alt-right subreddits
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It seems like even then they only do what they are supposed to when they get attention or when the mods get bored.
RustyNails
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Yep. As much as I hate to say it, the_Donald guys know how to stay inside the "rules". After the Quebec shooting they even said The_Donald subreddit condemns the act, which was ok I guess.
CornBurrito
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Reddit is largely neoliberal. Not left.
Littlefang
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I love this post title on /r/The_Donald.
Maybe try telling that to Trump?
Also they're threatening to go to Voat. Yes please leave already.
Maybe try telling that to Trump?
Also they're threatening to go to Voat. Yes please leave already.
Free speech?
Personally, I'm not a big fan of banning stuff just because it doesn't conform to the social status quo. Not so long ago gay marriage was illegal in the USA and before that, interracial marriage. In a different age, those might be forbidden topics as well.
I'm sure most of the discussions in those subreddits were downright disgusting, but let's not be too hasty with banning everything that doesn't fit our worldview. Because the next time, it could happen to something you care about. Also, there is some advantage in letting the deplorables gather in an easily observed environment.
Only really blatantly dangerous stuff like holocaust denial or organizing violence should be shut down, in my humble opinion.
RedAssedApe
Banned
pretty lame that it takes doxxing to start taking something down
samoscratch
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Our president sure as hell isn't following the rules, ban them all.
jellies_two
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Organizing violence is what these subreddits and Facebook groups DO though.
It is sly but totally transparent. If only words are banned, they talk with symbols memes and code. The anti defamation league knows how it works. Its insidious. The rules need to be created around intent, and need to err on the side of early weeding before roots are put down deep. If we were talking about pro-ISIS discussion boards these guys could write the rules on moderating out extremism for you.
No they're not. Reddit is a privately owned website, they can ban whoever the fuck they want for whatever reason they want. No one on there has any "right to free speech" because Reddit =/= America.
I agree.
Users of /r/altright were posting a crowd funding site that, among other things, is crowd funding the doxxing of the man who sucker punched Richard Spencer. Even though links to the site were automatically labelled as spam on Reddit, mods were approving the site manually on the /r/altright subreddit.
They were literally fundraising the organization of violence.
Again, it's the Reddit admins saying that they have that right, on their site. No governments involved.
Battlechili
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Most of Stein's posts and responses in her AMAs on Reddit were met with praise and melded well with the core userbase of Reddit. Only like two of her posts in her AMAs were harshly criticized (her posts about nuclear power in particular). I wouldn't call that being ripped to shreds.
Their admins are dumb as fuck then. Fucking Silicon Valley tech-bro libertarians.
Gnome Scat
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Good start, now ban The Donald.
I guess it's good, but as an american it feels pretty "too little to late".
I at first thought you mean like, ban Trump from social media and... Huh, I bet the chance of that happening is more than 0%.
They can have their free discussion on another website. You are entitled to nothing on a privately owned website
Likewise GAF could ban all Trump sympathizers but I'd rather they didn't. Like it or not, those people make up a big chunk of the American electorate. If you ban gatherings those people will only retreat into their echo-chambers, unseen by the rest of society, and things will get worse, not better.
Professional Enthusiast
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Does it matter if they retreat to an echo chamber when diehard Trump supporters won't listen to reason or facts? What good is discussion when you're talking to a brick wall?
We might need to start calling him One Punch Man.
Already Torn
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Hah!
I feel bad for the Nazi punching guy. He's a hero.
I feel bad for the Nazi punching guy. He's a hero.
Nah I'd argue we got Trump because we let it run rampant. And it has nothing to do with free speech. The government is not involved. Reddit SHOULD ban hateful rhetoric if they are against such things as most decent people are.
Netherscourge
Banned
Took them long enough.
They'll just buy a .ru domain and keep it going anyway. Everybody fretting over speech restrictions on white supremacists can take that bullshit over there and reach out to them, come back and let us know what it's like trying to break into Fort Knox with spitballs.
they have picked towns like that. Idaho has loads, but should they really get to say POC aren't allowed there? Do we need a new Green Book to tell them where shouldn't stop at night?
I already know how it would go lol. My cousin just today screamed on his face book on how he is blocking anybody that posts negative comments on posts he makes about Trump, but the other day he was crying about the Nazi that got punched in the face's free speech.
CornBurrito
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Who knew advocating for racial genocide was the same as gay marraige.
Just ban them all.
Why is reddit always taking this middle shaky ground, when the admins obviously have a certain political position .
But somehow allow these communities to persist in parts, while on the back side they keep using their power to ban users, edit comments, and all the other dumb actions that just makes them look shady.
Why is reddit always taking this middle shaky ground, when the admins obviously have a certain political position .
But somehow allow these communities to persist in parts, while on the back side they keep using their power to ban users, edit comments, and all the other dumb actions that just makes them look shady.
Generalpsyduck
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echoing this; as should sites like twitter and even Facebook
if these nazis want to organize they can do it on stormfront or in hell
Subpar Spatula
Banned
I don't believe Reddit until they ban r/the_donald. Banning smaller alt-right subreddits means nothing.
CassidyIzABeast
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All social platforms should have nipped the fuckery in the bud before they helped put a shithead in the White House
Meanwhile the press secretary is demanding to know why journalists haven't been fired for depreciating the president.
nephilimdj
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Its ironic this is also on the front page at the moment
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs/comments/5rflcg/mrw_i_filter_trump_on_rworldnews/
Anti-trump but subscribed to tumblrinaction (full of gamergaters)
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs/comments/5rflcg/mrw_i_filter_trump_on_rworldnews/
Anti-trump but subscribed to tumblrinaction (full of gamergaters)
Crimson_Echidna
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And r/TheRedPill and r/KotakuInAction
Because outing and doxxing is generally the only major area where Reddit will intervene.
Sure, but the sustenance r/The_Donald enjoyed from SJW tears after November 8th will last a lifetime.
TestOfTide
Banned
Come on, you can do better than this shitty drive by post, especially looking at your post history.
Oh God Why
Banned
About time
Have you ever looked at voat? If reddit is a rancid cesspool, voat is the raw sewage at the bottom of a septic tank. Total nazi paradise over there.
At least reddit has standards and decent subreddits with flaws but still decent. Voat is reddit without any of it's redeemable points
it's not free speech.
maybe if more people attempt to enlighten themselves and proceed to learn beyond basic education (though this is a basic education thing) the world would be a better place. maybe.
my guess is you aren't responding as you've avoided correcting yourself in the four hours since which i guess makes sense as you'd rather mosey along and be wrong somewhere else.
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